An accountant who murdered his wife as their children slept then buried her in their backyard with the misguided hope of pursuing a relationship with her sister will spend at least 23 years in a West Australian prison.
Ahmed Dawood Seedat, 37, pleaded guilty to the murder of his 32-year-old wife Fahima Yusuf, at their home in Carlisle, Western Australia, in August last year.
Seedat planned the murder for weeks, in the hopes that, by killing his wife, he'd be free to pursue a relationship with his sister-in-law, it has been revealed.
Instead, he was yesterday sentenced to a minimum of 23 years in prison.
Justice Bruno Fiannaca yesterday described the killing as brutal, callous and cowardly.